Description Details...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

Full Text Search Details...ssive, coercive, or bureaucratic." (Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) A... ...ed: Natural Selection IS the vital power itself. Modern Physics is converging with Philosophy (possibly with the philosophical side of Religion as ... ...ors and, lately, by (neuronal) network metaphors. Metaphors are not confined to the philosophy of neurology. Architects and mathematicians, for inst... ...o similar to "paramartha satya" (the "ultimate truth") in the Madhyamika school of Buddhist thought. The ultimate truth cannot be expressed verball...

Description Details...Described as ‘unique and a great service to understanding’, this book is intended for three groups; Western Buddhists, that bulk of the West that have no religious affiliation yet know there is something more to life, and Buddhists in Asia who follow the encounter of the dharma with the West. It highlights the pervasive similariti...

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Two Great Teachers
Towards a Personal Gospel
A Buddhist Imitation of Jesus’ Words
The ‘Sayings of Jesus’
‘Q’ Better Good News?
A Christian Interpretation of Buddhism
A Buddhist Imitation of Jesus’ Words – Continuous...

Description Details...anthology’, like a gathering of flowers, although it actually meant a religious gathering as in the Greek !""#$%&'. Across the ages its similarity to Buddhist notions has been noted, which leads to this rendering of Ecclesiastes in rhyming couplets based on a Buddhist understanding of life. Hence it is a gathering of the inflorescence of wisdom – pranja in Sanskrit
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Description Details...Buddhist - Christian Dialogue
The Parliament of the World’s Religions, December 2-9, Melbourne, Australia
Sunday, December 6, 2009, 11:30am–1:00pm
The program of the Parliament paraphrased this workshop in such words...

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Dharma as Man: The Gospel Story in Buddhist Terms
Lindsay Falvey 1
Towards ‘Collaborative Theology’ – Buddhist and Christian
John D’Arcy May 18
Dying Buddha, Dying Christ: An Inter-Spiritual Response to the Amelioration of Sufferi...

Description Details...l development to live within the rhythm of the cosmos. It is a universal tale condensed to combine the world’s stories, which renders Jesus life into Buddhist concepts in an ancient Indian setting. It is not a religious book, and so will appeal to open-minded Atheists, Animists, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Judaists, Muslims, Taoists … and Zoroastrians. Its fluid style i...

Full Text Search Details...o contact with other people, integrity and ethics will show you the way. Buddhists say that if the mind becomes impure, one's deeds will become imp... ...tions, industry associations, and universities with his inspiring "do it" philosophy. His fame is grounded in quality, substance, and a positive att...

Full Text Search Details...he four fundamental forces that make up the history of humanity, Religion, Philosophy, Science and Art, in a single field of energy. This attempt c... ...– The I and history, both modern and ancient. The I and science, the I and philosophy, the I and religion, the I and art. The I and the West. The I a... ...ize the opus of our lives, not through alchemy or asceticism, sainthood or philosophy, but by transferring the principles of art to life itself and b... ...wn to us by the philosophers and the theologians, but it is not impossible. Buddhists have no God and yet they constitute one of the most important r... ... do nothing else except spend the rest of eternity in bliss. According to Buddhist thought, those who reach nirvana completely annul their individu...

Description Details...This book introduces Buddhism by describing its approach to spiritual development and those who undertake the Buddhist path. It aims to make Buddhism more easily understood by those who might be unfamiliar with its objectives – and this task is made easier by the pragmatic ways in which Buddhism meets our enduring urge for happiness....

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Chapter 1 What is Buddhism? Understanding Human Happiness
Chapter 2 What is a Buddhist? How to Recognise a Buddhist When You Meet One
Chapter 3 The Buddha: The Archetype of Human Development
Chapter 4 The Dharma: The True Nature of Reality and How to See It
Chapter 5 The Sangha: Friendship and Inspi...

Description Details...order to review them for the German journal “Zentralblatt fár Mathematik”. It was an inspired connection he made between literature/arts and science, philosophy....

Excerpt Details...Paradoxism is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive used of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations....

Full Text Search Details... by Charles T. Le: 3 0. Introduction: 9 1. Neutrosophy - a new branch of philosophy: 13 2. Neutrosophic Logic - a unifying field in logics: 87 3.... ...nter Florentin Smarandache, especially because the treated subject was of philosophy - revealing paradoxes - and logics. He had generalized the fu... ...osophic statistics” and thus opening new ways of research in four fields: philosophy, logics, set theory, and probability/statistics. It was known t... ...cognoscible God", who is present without being made known, an echo of the Buddhist paradox of presence-absence grounded by Nâgârjuna. While Hegel (... ...lued paraconsistent system as his First Degree Entailment semantics; The Buddhist logic added a fifth value to the previous ones, ‘none of these’ (c...

Full Text Search Details...mer but a member of the more affluent class and this by Thai, although not Buddhist standards, was well revered. How swift one's encroaching alonenes... ...glasses that caged her tepid orbs and to not succumb them to rapturous non-Buddhist primal yearnings. She did not care to dodge the aloneness of her ... ...ieged by an orderly society of ants. He was beginning to acknowledge that Buddhist principles were curtailed by reality: a few ants allowed to live w... ...s of the trees. Everything changes. Good men are distorted into Gods, and philosophy is made into a sordid religion. Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, H... ...s were the wrong choices. The enemy of my enemy is my friend was the wrong philosophy. Those were bad foreign affairs blunders. They continually int... ...ted to zoology she couldn't say unless the administration was privy to the philosophy of mice and men. All she knew was that the anthropology teacher ...

Full Text Search Details... also met other saints belonging to other faiths such as Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Yogis, Siddhs, etc. The writings of several saints, which conf... ...hs, etc. The writings of several saints, which conformed to his vision and philosophy, were also collected and noted down by him. 15 When Gu...

Full Text Search Details... January 28, 1687, following the death of his only and beloved son, became a devout Buddhist. He criminalized the killing of all land animals, and t... ... a few semesters in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western Univ... ...eb sites in: – Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") – An Open Directory Cool Site, – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitic... ...odicals in many countries. Many appearances in the electronic media on subjects in philosophy and the sciences, and concerning economic matters. ...

Full Text Search Details...e. Then I started exploring. For some years I studied psychology and also philosophy, Eastern and Western, mysticism, all the modern sciences, everyt... ...is why I say there is no freedom of action for you. It's not a fatalistic philosophy I am talking about but preventing the past from interfering wit... ...ly and intelligently? It does not mean that I am teaching a materialistic philosophy or any such thing. Thought is not intended for achieving spiritu... .... They talked of the void. They talked of emptiness. You know, the whole Buddhistphilosophy is built on the foundation of that no mind. Yet they ha...

Full Text Search Details...r pouring out of a spout. So comforting. So soothing. Fluid. Was this what Buddhists experienced when they did their nam yo jazz? This heady feeling o... ...Keever 297 "You do not have to hear it, to know that it is so." "Ah, Djinn Philosophy 101." Therese slid down further until most of her legs were in K...

Description Details...pular ideals
- how grass domestic happiness can be a serious topic
- how more food can be produced with less land and fertilizer
- why labels like Buddhist and vegetarian confuse life
- what traditional wisdom is critical to development
- how misrepresentation fuels fears about climate change
- why small farmers and foreign agribusiness must coexist...

Full Text Search Details... perfection instead is for Jews and Christians, or Illumination is for the Buddhists. Its purpose is to develop the human artistic ability to create... ...e God of the Hebrews and beauty. It is not mentioned. We do not know what Buddhist thought says about the search for beauty. Wisdom is mentioned, b... ...ople appreciate them. They are, however, also books of wisdom, just as the Buddhist texts and the Bible are. I consider my hypotheses as a way to in...